Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

688045166

This role is based in Vancouver where we have other engineering, product management, and leadership. You will work closely with the local team and frequently interface with our geographically distributed team located in other offices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience working on cloud services.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Well-developed problem-solving skills with a solid understanding of the entire software development lifecycle.
• Experience with any of the following engineering areas: scalability, compliance, performance, security, privacy, reliability, accessibility, localization, or globalization.
• Deep technical understanding and a proven ability to develop successful long-term code/service architectures.
• Commitment to customer obsession in order to solve real user problems in consumer and enterprise products.
• A systematic problem solver who ramps up quickly, understands complex problems, and creates solutions across many services and dependencies.
• Experience working on large-scale projects across divisions and landing complex but scalable architectures to meet agile business needs.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

• Develop UX/API features that have direct impact on key business metrics and 500M+ users.
• Work with partner teams from Edge, Windows, and Content Services to coordinate and deliver projects on-time.
• Contribute to rigorous engineering practices to ensure high-availability and service quality under load.
• Design scalable architectures that solve user scenarios across different partners and service topologies.
• Help ensure live site health of the product and its continuous improvement.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and act as mentor.
• Take initiative to identify and fix bottlenecks.